Recently released body camera footage has unveiled additional critical errors made by police officers following the tragic incident where a Chicago officer was accidentally shot by her colleague while on duty.
The incident involved Officer Krystal Rivera, aged 36, who was injured by her partner, Officer Carlos Baker, during a pursuit of a suspect inside an apartment complex located in the Chatham area. This unfortunate event unfolded around 9:50 PM on June 5, 2025.
The Chicago Sun-Times acquired the footage, which highlighted a delay in transporting Rivera to the hospital due to confusion over who possessed the vehicle keys.
In the footage, a visibly distressed group of officers can be seen urging others to clear the doorway as three officers carried Rivera, supporting her by the arms and legs, out of the building.
“Get out of the doorway! Get out of the doorway!” a female officer is heard shouting in the video.
“Come on, come on,” a male officer urged as they navigated down the sidewalk with Rivera.
Others went deeper into the building, assuming the three would get Rivera to the hospital, but they would be quickly called back to the doorway as they needed the keys.
Nearly a minute after they carried Rivera outside, officers came back in search of the keys.
Three officers carried her out of the building by her arms and legs
‘Whose got keys? Whose got keys? I need keys to get out of here!’ the officer, whose bodycam footage is being shown, yelled.
As the woman officer who ran back into the building to get the keys realizes they’re the wrong ones, the cops are set into another frenzy to find the right ones.
‘They’re trying to move the officer out!’ a man screamed.
The keys were then passed through an assembly line of officers before the man whose bodycam is being shown runs them to the street to hand them to a colleague.
This came after Baker took cover in the stairwell for more than 90 seconds after shooting Rivera, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Baker accidentally shot Rivera after he appeared to trip over his feet during the pursuit. The bullet hit Rivera, who was standing behind him, the outlet reported.
Baker told investigators that he carried Rivera down to the first floor before giving his keys to another officer and going back upstairs.
‘I told them to take her to the hospital,’ he told investigators, The Sun-Times reported.
Chicago Police Officer Carlos Baker shot his ex-girlfriend during a pursuit
Officers were delayed in getting her help as they couldn’t find the keys to the vehicle
It took around a minute to get them so they could drive her to the hospital
Officers then went back to searching for the suspect and there was confusion over who shot Rivera.
Around 10.30pm, bosses had learned Baker was the one who shot Rivera. It is unclear how they learned this.
Baker had many complaints against him, which Rivera’s family argued should have taken him off the force prior to the incident where their daughter died.
Rivera’s family has sued the city over the incident. They accuse him of leaving her ‘to die’ due to their romantic relationship ending after she found out he was living with another woman, The Sun-Times reported.
Previously released bodycam footage showed he and Rivera getting out of a vehicle and running toward a man outside of an apartment building, demanding he ‘freeze’ and raise his hands.
But the man instead ducked into the building and bounded up the stairs, with Baker and Rivera pursuing close behind.
As Baker made his way up the stairs, with Rivera on his tail, the suspect – who was later identified as Adrian Rucker – ducked into an apartment.
Baker then kicked down the door as the suspect proceeded to flip over the couch.
Rivera, a mother of one, was pronounced dead at a local hospital
The suspect ducked into an apartment, where a second man was seen holding a long gun
At that point, another man – later identified as Jaylin Arnold – could be seen exiting a room with a long gun in hand.
Baker appeared to quickly react, turning and firing one shot – and Rivera fell to the ground.
Meanwhile, Baker ran up the stairs, where he caught his breath before asking: ‘Krystal, are you okay?’
When he did not receive an answer, Baker could be heard calling for an ambulance and asserting: ‘I can’t get my partner!’
He also asked another resident of the building to call 911.
But about two minutes later, Baker could be seen going to check on his partner before additional units arrived on the scene to transport her to a local hospital.
Colleagues brought Rivera, a mother-of-one, to University of Chicago Medical Center in a squad car that crashed and caught fire because of a malfunction, according to Police Superintendent Larry Snelling.
Officer Rivera, pictured alongside her friend Officer Lindahl, had reportedly been in an on-and-off relationship with Baker
She was then transported in another squad car, and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
An ensuing autopsy found that the fatal shot pierced Rivera’s skin and traveled through both her lungs, wedging itself in her ribs, The Chicago Tribune reports.
The Daily Mail has contacted the Rivera family lawyer, Antonio Romanucci, and the police for comment.
